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Community House (Hamilton, Massachusetts)

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62: 864: 87: 48: 876: 408: 853: 94: 69: 239:. The Mandells and a group of Hamilton residents worked with Community Service, Inc., a national non-profit that worked to improve recreational facilities. The Mandells purchased the land, in what was then a residential area outside the Hamilton-Wenham business district, and gave it to Hamilton House, Inc., founded to hold title to the property in perpetuity. 242:
The two story building houses an auditorium, sitting room, library, and kitchen on its first floor, and meeting rooms on the second. The basement originally held bowling lanes, a game room, and a men's lounge. Community Service of Wenham and Hamilton, Inc., which manages the building, has over the
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The most significant changes to the building have affected the lower level. As bowling rose in popularity, additional lanes were added in a 1934 addition, and also in an adjoining building; the original lanes were converted to a shooting range for law enforcement. With the waning of bowling's
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years offered a wide variety of social, recreational, and educational programs in the facility, and made it available to other community groups as meeting and function space.
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popularity, the adjoining building was leased out and eventually sold after being converted to medical offices, and the 1934 addition was converted to meeting space.
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Construction of the building was made possible through the efforts and generosity of George Snell Mandell and Emily Mandell, Hamilton residents and publishers of the
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is a historic social and civic community building serving the towns of Hamilton and
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Community House (Hamilton, Massachusetts) is located in Massachusetts
Community House (Hamilton, Massachusetts) is located in the United States
Hamilton, Massachusetts
42°36′47″N 70°52′21″W / 42.61306°N 70.87250°W / 42.61306; -70.87250
Guy Lowell
11000265
Hamilton, Massachusetts
Wenham
Boston
Guy Lowell
National Register of Historic Places
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